When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
BILLY JOELAnd you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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